WCSX Classic Cuts : Witchy Woman
WCSX Classic Cuts
Eagles: “Witchy Woman”
The Hook: One of their earliest songs, it helped get them their record deal.
Album: Eagles
Year: 1971
Writers: Don Henley and Bernie Leadon
Stats: Peaked at number-nine on the Billboard Hot 100.
Background: Eagles guitarist Bernie Leadon wrote the music for “Witchy Woman,” then gave the song to drummer Don Henley, who put lyrics to what would be the only song on their debut album on which he sings lead. Leadon recalls that he and Henley never discussed who the “witchy woman” was, or what inspired the words.
Original Eagles guitarist Bernie Leadon gives some of the history behind “Witchy Woman” and says he and Don Henley never discussed what Henley’s lyrics were about. OC:…so far. :30
“No, it didn’t seem important to me. I don’t know why. It sounded good, that’s all I cared about, really. That song was one of the songs that got us signed. That was one of the first group of songs and that was put together before we had a record contract. There really wasn’t a demo for it — we never did demo stuff. We did go in the studio to make a demo, but we went in one day, we were already highly rehearsed, and we walked into some studio and just told him to roll the 2 track, and we did about 20, 25 songs in a row. But we already had a record deal, we already had a producer, I think maybe we did it just to document what we’d done so far.”
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